The Sun. — London, England, 1818-12-16 00:00:00

ri • il I)1 it I• Who Om can say ties;, in a Commercial Country l ike Great Britain, the general interests be brought into Itazatli .by mistakon lenity ,?—We should 'recollect ihat t've ought to feel for the, Community as Well as for individuals who, bytheir cr imes, have forfeited the protection of the Law. and who, if pardons were familiar, would hold f orth examples that might shake the credit of the Country, and introduce incalculable evils. The new Two-Pound Bauk-note, which ivas 3'eported to be of such heautirul engraving and fine texture as to put it out of the power of any Person to imitete, has been lair! before the Bank tngraver, who' has taken so complete a copy, that it was found impo s sible to discover the dif ference : conscrrently this plan has been aban linned by the Di.ectors. OLD BATLRY.—This morning John Kingston, !Mother of tho',e Pri:oners who had on a former Ile eation pleaded Guilty to the minor offence (I f havio g forged Bank of England Notes in his P ° ssession,. took hii trial before Mr. Baron W OOD, for having uttered the said Notes.—The Nal was not fini.:hed when our Paper was put to kress. SHIP NEWS. CoRRY, DEC. 7.—Tl , e brig Suwon, BURTON, (If Whitehaven, timt)er I,.den, from America for 811 gos kvos wrecked on the•S.W. coast of Sky on the morning, of the 30th tilt. After the crew ' l bandfoy e d h e r (tvlio are all safe), the vessel took fir e , Which, with the cargo, is entirely consumed, "epti . ti g a few pieces of timber. The brig Tra- DixoN, of Whitchaven, has put into Loch Sh iPpen, in this Isle, after encourrering heavy P a les Of wind on her passage from Limerick to Liverpool, wi!hont damage. PORTRpIt►UTH, DEC. 15.—Arrived the Deme ter" Pdeke , , VENABLES, from London for Deme lari ; and his Majesty's ship Rosario from a cruise. COWES, DEC. 15.—Sailed yesterday the Portu- I lt'se ship Innocent:in, FLotits, from liimburgh 1° () Porto, which put in here the 12th October FALmouTti, Dec. 13.—Arrire4l the Industry, TO DD, from Tenerifie for Amsterdam. Sailed ll 's 'Majesty's ships Lee and ITeron on a cruise. MARGATE, DEC. 15.—Put back yesterday the it oyal SoVereigil, GIBBS, from London for Rat : . lerdatn, for shelter. S LIST. , 'tiered Inwards, Der. 14.—Betsy and Ann, Haigh, Pe -Ic4burgli ; Lord Nelson, Ander=on, do. ; Joseph and Jane, Andalnsia, Gabbage, do.; Pomona, Mills, do.; Nmith , ; H al - ninny, Cress well, do. ) IV! na, Wild 4"se, do. ; Garthland, Knight, do. ; Old Maid, Young, eo. ; b °11 " ; ' 'Branch, Patterson, Gotten burgh ; Adriatic, Patrie, ; Landsturn, Liedtke, do.; Lotte, Aldkes, do.; Vrow Vanderween, Groningen ; Goede Verwagtiug, Louie, do.; Jutirow 'Ena, Lofrers, do.; Friends, Bowie, Ablhorg; l's". Hibernian, Bootiman, do. ; Isabella Watt, Ferguson, 11').; Louise, Bopp, Pillau; Lustre, Spencer, Memel ; Eaglet, 11 ' 4 ) du.: Carl 'Edward, Goltz, Stettin ; Neptunus, Bentor , John Bulkely, 'Gulager, Virginia; Middlesex, .Vams, Charlotta Frederica, Wallis, Griefswald ; Henrich and I'lkdor, Klawitten, Dantzic ; Unity, Williamson, Alicant ; Rorlson, Stockholm; Medea, Calmayer, Uleaborg ; Sunde, Frederielsstadt ; Europa, Nieman, Wismar. 4 : 7 aered Outwards, Dee. •I4.—Catalina, Andrew, Rio Ja -11:40; Ann, S an l e y, Havanna') ; Stakesley, Henderson, Z" n 'baY; Hope, Craigie, Havannah ; Maria, Tuit; St. Lucie; Falconer, Chalton, Pernambuco. Cleared Outwards, Dec. 14.—Orpheus, Cristall, Smyrna; lIQYaI Eagle, ..Gibles, Lisbon ; Marianna, Norris, Smyrna; 'aanles liarris, , Ctillen, Jamaica; John and Robert, Swinton, '40 .; Mary and Eliza, Phillips, Havannah. ‘ C ORN -ER CH A NGE , DEC. 16.—Our Market is 41)(1 ' 1 (1400y supplied with all kiwis of Grain, but 14 e demand continuing small, t!-e sales were.ex tterlingly heavy this morning, partieniatly for Wheat, Oats, Pease, and Beans, which may be 'tt ' n3 joeied rat her cheaper ; but fine English Bar ieY supports Monday's prices. BRIGHTON, DEC. 14.—The PRINCE REGENT 1 1 : 1 50 k several turns on the enclosed grounds the • "Ilion thi s morn i ng , an d was for a s h t;t o t t i me I th the Riding-school before dinner. The of an evening continues rr, ue but partially mlininated, and the - dinner parties are contincd to ,lie attendant snite• t C ITY BUSINESS.._ A Court of Aldermen was eld yesterday at Guildhall, when the LOED 'IIAYOR report e d, t h at , at a tV ar d mo t e l a t e ly h e ld 1142 ti)re him, in Cheap Ward, for the election of Alderman in the room of Samuel Goodbeltere, 1"q. 'dee,t,sed, ltici,.ird R '' 6 ' E"1. wits linldniMo.,slv c h osen , an d M r . R ot l ro ell attend tlig. Was ii, tro d uce d to the C ourt b y severa l Gen 9-kitt of the W ar d, an d sworn into office. The coot.[ came to an unanimous Resointion of Om grt'lebqe upon the d e ceas e of her late 111 ,jesty, and s Yn'pathy with the Prince Regent and Mou e the Royal FaniiiY• bu i•r—Satund a y se ' nn i g ht, two English Offi lv,,"' ne of the iNtilitary, t:nd the other ut tht -v ; 1 "I'lee. had a meeting in the wood of t~ulnne. The Militaiy Officer was uotinded, 1101 dangero,sly. This duel was the conse ia.l 1 : 1 : ce "f a bctiffic which took place the even °riot e,• i n guing front the Opera, about a n't, or buckuvy-coach. . FOR TIIE SUN: TH.F BIBLE. MR. EDITOR.-Having obse-ved that a Writer under the name'of ACKHOUSR still continuos to obtrude. Mr. BP.:l_l,ol'es . proposed heiv version of the Bible %Tot the am imice4 to point mit to your notice the shameful and ill4Oanded abuie of that Focred Volume, as contained in Yonr Paper of Saturday !:1:t. I say of the Volume it self, because every person who is ranable of judg ing knows, that our present Translation is, in general, iteinaikably close to the original. Cer t.ainly the delicacy of the present age may he of• fended by the use of words which to the simpli city of our forefathers night not appear improper; and these might easily be changed without a new Translation, And 1 cannot alter this opinion upon the recommendation or arguMents of such a writer as STACKEIOUSP , who has shetvn himself so completely ignorant of this important subject, ai to speak of our present authorised Translation in a former Letter, under the name of the Bishop's Bible I call upon him to prove the troth of his assertions concerning the manner in which our present Translation was made, :as contained in his Letter of last Saturday; and upon Mr. BELLAMY-, as before, to prove, as he asserts, that it was taken from the Vulgate. Let them first do this, and then we will enquire into the necessity of a new Translation, and the qualifications of a new Translator. I am, Sir, t'our's, &c. Dec. 15. BITII,IOPHILUS. FOR TETE SUN. MR. EDlTOR,—Wbether Mr. BELLAMY is to be esteemed a better Hebraist than any who have gone before him, or inferior to Kennicott, Lnwth, Blaney, and many of modern as well as of ancient fame, is a point very difficult of proof ; nor can it be finally decided, but from a long and labo• rious induction of particulars. But whether he is a man of sound understanding and judgment, may he proved by a very tew lines of his writing ; and it cannot be unfair to put the proof upon a specimen voluntarily selected by himself. With the Prospectus of his work, he gave to the Puldie, " Some few selected passages, she►+ping the con trast betwten the Old and the New Translation." Of these passages, the veryfirst is this : " 2 Kings, v. IS. In this thing the Lord pardon thy servant, that when my master cometh into the house of Kininaon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I hog.' myself in the house of airumon ; when I bow down myself in the house of Ritumon, the Lord pardon thy servant in this thing." To which the Prophet answers, " Go in peace." The petty difficulty in this passage is, that the Prophet thus seems to connive at an outward compliance ,with idolatrous worship. BLit as Naaman had neither power nor commission to convert his master, such an indulgence to a new convert, whose lift miAt depend upon it, seems not unreasonable. Though some commentators have thought that Elisios meant rather to evade than decide [tie question ; as if be bad said, " make volt-self easy on that head, all will be well." To me it seems, that, under the circum stances, be intended to grant tl►e permission re quested. But to get rid of the difficulty.ahoge tiler, Mr. B. strains the words into the following sense : " In this thing will Jehovah pardon thy servant ? When my Lord came to the house of Rini/non, to worship there, then he leaned on ❑►y hand, and I myself worshipped in the house of Rinimon : since I myself worshipped in the house of Ri►n[non, will Jehovah, I pray thee, pardon thy servant in this thing ?" Now, in the name of common setts*, what is gained by thus forcing the words into a sense, which no interpreter, ancient or modern, has seen in them ? I enter not now into the question, whether they can bear that sense or not. But if they could, what then ? A known idolater is con verted 'o belief in the God of Israel, by a mi racle performed on his own person ; and when he has confessed that great truth, " Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel,"—after this, what does be do ? He tells the Prophet, what he toast have known before, that previously he had been an idolater. He 11,st declares, ilia! in future he " will neither offer burnt offlling nor sacrifice unto other gods, but onto the Lord ;" but he adds, according to Mr. Bellamy, " I was an idolater be'ore." Ail lie could do was to give up his former error, which Lad beets perfectly involuntary ; and how could it occur to him that be must still want pardon for the eta or he had forsaken ? Worship pine in the 110t , se of Rittman, before he was converted, was only an occasional act, in a lire of idolatry ; why tben should he particularly ask p;,qtlon tor that i Bat if, after he was converted, his official situation might force him into an out ward compliance, with his 1 n asw's superstition, for that apparent, though not real contempt of his new faith, lie mighi most naturally ask par don : and, as the Prophet had no occasion to bind such a volunteer with much rigour, that par don would as naturally be granted. If then, as from this view it appears, Mr. B. has done extreme violence to the original, with no better result than that of producing nonsense from it, his ooderstauding and judgment must be estimated at a very low rate : and consequently the question of his fitness fur au illustrator of difficult passages must at once be decided against him. " Scribendi recd, sopere est principium et lons." Bite it ibe supeie he altogether wanting, it matters nothing what may he his oilier cat ions. 1 have here examnied only one of his , pecimens, but there are 0 hers not better formed to stead the test of reason. Your's, FRIDEAUX. l'U ET a Y. IMPROUPTIT To O Friend, or bring- desired to write a panezyric on the Duke of WELLINGTON, soon after the Battle of Waterloo. Why bid me tune my lyric strain In praise of WELuvoToN's campaign? , Why gi s ye an Eagle's province to a Wren? ly paltry gOose-iinill nought can do, To paint the scene of WATERLOO, Go, ask fair HISTNY for her golden pen. . SOmer"lown. W. EPIGRANI. It seems in all cases, as Niiture has plavin'd; That names should with callings ag,ree, There's Twining the.Teaman, who lives in the Strand, Would be —wining. for want of his T. DOCTOR FRANKLIN. iuTiiESmi.; COPY OF FRANKLIN'S EPITAPH. The body of B. FRANKLIN, printer, like the corer of an old book, ' its contents torn Out, , and stript of its lettering and gilding; lies here, food fur worms. But the work shall nut be *wholly lost : for it will, as he believed, appear once more, in a new and more +perfect edition, :corrected and amended by the Atrrnoa! • Tr/to/k—not in the printed copy, p. 417, vol. i. t Elegant--in the printed copy. .1, Revised and corrected—in the printed copy. FOR THE SUN. MISS KELLY AND THE THEATRES. MR. Erwroa,—The Public, who are likely to be deprived of one of their chief favourites, have a right to demand an answer to two questions : First to Drory-lane Theatre—Did the Sub-Com mittee, when they offered to Miss KELLY her former terms, restricting her talents wholly to Drury-lane Theatre, know that she was prevented by previous engagements from accepting their offer ? Next to the Covent-Garden Proprietors— Were they prevented from completing the env,ge•- ment into which they had entered with Misi KELLY, by a prohibition from the Sub• Co mmittee of Drury-lane Theatre ? It is necessary, for the credit of both Theatres, that these pies tions should be promptly and satisfactorily an swered ; a respect for justice, liberality, and a regard for the gratification of the Public, abso lutely demand sonic substantial reason why an accompl:shed actress and amiable young woman should be tantalized with an offer that she Could not accept, and, because of the necessity of declining it, be denied the opportunity of carrying to the best markt t those talents upon which her subsistence depends. Bedford Coffee-house, nec. Iy. IMPARTIAL'S. THE LATE CHIEF BARON 'THOMSON. A chaste and elegantlMonument', designed and e x ecuted with his accustomed taste, by Mr. T. KING, sculptor, of Bath, was on Wednesday placed in the Choir of the Abbey Church, to the memory of the late Sir A. Tnomsori, Pint. Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer. On the top lie the emblems of Jcstice, with volumes of celebrated law authors, and a bold drapery bears the following inscription : " Sacred to the memory of the Right Hon. Sir ALEXANDER _THOMPSON, Knight, one of his Majesty's Must Honourable Privy Council. He was horn at CamherWt,ll, 6tll Jan. 1745; called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, Michaelmas Term, 1709 ; appointed a Master in Chancery, May 1782, Accountant- General, Jan. 1788, a Baron in the Exchequer, Feb. 1787, and Lord Chief Baron of the same Court, to the universal satis faction of the Bar, the Bench, and the Nation, 23d Feb. 1814. He died in this city, sincerely regretted, 15th April,. 1817. His Understanding was sound and strong; his Know ledge in every branch of the Law accurate, extensive, and profound; his Impartiality invariable; his Attention to Cri minals unremitting ; his Humanity judicious. He was pa tient in hearing, laborious in investigating, cautious in de ciding; and his Judgment (on which every man had more reliance than himself) seldom erred. Simple ,and unosten tatious in'the application of his talents, and courting neither favour nor popularity, he deservedly obtained the confidence of the Country. To these Public Virtues, were added, in the habits of his prirate•life, a general Acquaintance /with Lite rature and the Arts, unaffected Piety, unassuming Manners' and stedfastness in Friendship, with the kindest Heart. To perpetuate the remembrance of so useful an example, and to record their own gratitude and affection, his two surviving NIECES have caused this memorial to be erected." THE JEWS.—The following letter has been re cently addressed to the Editor of a Brussels Pa per Sir, having seen in your Journal a most erroneous statement upon the nature and objects of a memorial which I presented to the Congress of Aix•la-Chajtelle, you will do me the justice to obviate the 'false impression which that article might operate upon the public mind, and to announce, upon my responsibility, that upon the occasion alluded to, my object was neither the conversion tit the Jews, nor their restoration to Palestine, but a reasonable appeal to the justice and to the liberality of an enlightened age, relative to the amelioration of their moral and political condition under the several Governments of Europe. I have the happiness to add, that this proposition, far trout being unsupported, as you have said, has been r.-cognized, as one might well imagine, by the highest authorities, as question worthy of the consideration and of the encout agemeut of every friend of hun►anity " LEWIS WAY " A specimen of a new form intended to he given to li-nik-nntes has been shown at SOUlt• (It ti,t public offices. The paper is a- the saute vine. at present, ho; the written and engr,ivett parts are all contained in a small oval in the rent r c.— At each corner is a sort of stamp, of c urious a nd appL-aranc,:. whirl) it is !loped, cauuut be imitated.—(tilorning Paper.) At three o'clock oo Nlondav; the Mcinbcrs of the Smithfield Chtb assemttied at (he F! •Inasons' Tavern, and held a Aleetto;f. S. SE. BRIGHT, Bart., in the ( +lair. The Slate of the fotoisof the Club et—s , e : torre ,l to -h a i e imp, 'veil wo much, that the debt of hich remained to their silectsmith, could no be dild....are out of the surphis of the subs , i,tts , n , ior th cut rent year; and which surplus n:as ordered to be so applied. The following new Memberi were elected, viz Sir Henry Carr 11;betson, Bari., John Hamlin Borer, EA., *illiam Phillips Lamb, Esq., Tycho Wing, Esq., J. Eiq., Me..sis. Henry Boys, John Chatfield, Stephen Grantham, Daniel Larratt, and George Ridge. Some progress was made in adjusting the pre miums and conditions of the next show ; and the fUrther consideration of them was refer►ed to a Meeting yesterday Morning, at ten o'clock. THE DINNER. Sir JOHN SANDERS SEBRIGHT wEts in the Chair. After the cloth was removed, the Chairman gave— " The King".L" The Prince Regitt and Royal Family." Sir JOHN &BRIGHT then rose and said, that, * flattered as be always felt himself, by presiding Over a• meeting of farmers like the present, a class Of men peculiar to Britain, he could not but re gret; that the Meeting was deprived of the com p:my of their President. It appeared from a let ter whiCh he had that day received, that it was the full intention of his Grace the Duke or Bedford to have been present, had not his Royal Highness the Duke of York then fixed his visit to Woburn Abbey. H e had the pleasure of adding, that his Grace's zeal for the success of the Club was in no degree abated, as his libetal offer of 125 guineas for the next year would testily. Sir John con cluded by giving— " The Duke of Bedford," which was drank with three times three, and great applause. Then; " Success to the Smithfield Club"—three times three.' Sir JOHN then proceeded to read the adjudica. tion of the prizes. Yesterday morning the Club held their Ad journed Meeting, GKorG GUNNING, Esq. in the Ch a ir, when the thirteen Premiums, and five Medals, to be offered for the next Show, were adjusted, amounting to 210 guineas, the condi tions settled, the bills ordered to he printed, and one to be sent by post to each Member. The new plan of selecting three different judges for deciding- on the cattle premiums, from three others who are to adjudge the sheep and pigs, was settled, and the Meeting adjourned to,the first day . of the Show in December next. Miss O'NEILL is to perform one of her favourite characters this .at the Colchester Thea tre, And two ( - tillers the following nights, and. then returns to town. We learn that the Lqrd Nelson, and several other ships, left Petershorg on the 22d nit., and. after cutting their way through rite ice nearly lone miles, the greater part of them got to sea. The Lord Nelson has reached England, The Paris, the Richard and Ann, and the Harmony of Hull, it was expected, would be obliged to winter itt Russia. A c' cinist of Copenhagen has discovered is means of producing a lively yellow colour for dyeing cloth, lie gathers tl►e tops of potatoes when ►eady In flower, presses the juice, mixes ir with' more or less water, and safTers the cloth to remain in it during 24 hours. lie then dips it in spring water. The cloth may be either of woo!, silk, cotton, or flax. By plunging the cloth thus tinged with yellow into a vessel of blue, a brilliant and lasting green is obtained. Ftats.—•Last night, between eleven and twelve o'clock, a dreadful fire broke out at the extensive premises belonging to Messrs. CRANE and MUR PHY, turpentine and pitch manufacturers, Strar ford, Essex, which in a short time consumed the premises, together with the stock in, trade there on. We are happy to bear no lives were lost.— There was a plentiful supply of water,. as a creek from the river runs close to the premises, but was of little use'till the arrival of engines from Lon don.—The fire was confined to the premises. COINERS.--The' point reserved on the trial of frillier?' Phillips and his son, who were ca pitally convicted at Salop Assizes, of having in their possession a die, on which was - the im pression of a shilling, having been referred to the Twelve Judges, the Prince Regent has, in con sequence of their report thereon, granted the prisoners a free pardon. The elder Phillips, it will be recollected, was in custody in Gloucester some time since, , on a similar charge, and at that period resided near \Vest bury. upon-Severn. EXTRAORDINARY ROBl3ll.—For some time past a very time French dog has been observed, at the west end of the town, going from door to door begging ; his practice is, if he pet ceives any person in the shop, to lift up his paws, and remain in that position until something is given to him. If he does not see any one, he will enter and carry off something. On Monday night, a•. dusk, he was seen, going into Peter Finne)'s shop, in Peterstreet, and run off with a parcel ntsarsnet, which lay on the coon ter. It is evident he has been trained to the practice. CORONER'S INQUEST.—Yesterday afternoon an Inquest was hell at the Crown Tavern, Clerken well-green, before THOMAS STERLING, Esq. nit view of the body of Mr. Thomas Aloor, of the Nall's Head pub:ic-lionse, Ayleshory-street, clerken well, who put a period to his exigence by cutting his throat. The Jury immediately brought in their verdict—'' DAaiNG IZOBBERY.-011 Monday evening last, about haft -tea:'. eight o'clock, a box e,,nr H ining near oot . b io yned pounds was discovered to have been stolen trout the house of Mr Allen, Eagle and Slie-latie. Mr. A. had g,ote out in the early part of the evening, leavi , g the box witlt cootenis safe, and the care of the house , 0 his wife. On his re' urn home, he immediat• iy &son.: red it %' a gone. No clue has %et been f,I•o thno% er the box, or the villains who Last: stultu it. I /. I i